Example sentences of "[adv] have been [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next week , if the plot had not been uncovered , it would apparently have been the turn of his white comrade , Joe Slovo . |
| 2 | If the question of professional misconduct had been pursued the issue would not merely have been the efficacy of the Code but the power of the employer against the strength and stature of the profession , and thence the credibility of the profession . |
| 3 | And so it was that she died alone in a mental hospital — as Eliot told Violet Schiff , one of the few who had known them both from their earliest days together , death could only have been a deliverance for her . |
| 4 | Now , I do n't think we know what was the exact Sterling equivalent of the fall in our reserves during the last financial year , but it can only have been a minority of that total of £1and1/2 ; billion of public expenditure which was met neither by the product of taxation nor by borrowing from the public . |
| 5 | Our respective manners proved so widely different , that it would have been quite presumptuous in me to do anything but separate from an undertaking upon which I could only have been a clog . ’ |
| 6 | Rune muttered what could only have been a string of invective in his own language as he released his hold on her . |
| 7 | The French had obviously suffered a debâcle but , in itself , the opening up of the frontier with China might only have been a prelude to Chinese invasion and ensuing catastrophe . |
| 8 | The South Saxons whose numbers we shall never know with any accuracy , built up a complex Wealden farming system , backed by a communication network that can only have been an extension of the lesser economic roads of the Romano-Britons . |
| 9 | ‘ It can only have been the smell of the mothballs . ’ |
| 10 | Even so , she felt sure that it was something to do with her , that there should only have been the Maxwell girl there . |
| 11 | It might only have been the light reflected from his costume , yet once again he seemed embarrassed by her presence . |
| 12 | It may only have been the milestone of hitting thirty , but I could n't help feeling that it was proof that life was passing me by . |
| 13 | Between these extremes conditions varied endlessly , with so many towns sharing the social structure of their rural environments that cases of exceptional wealth can only have been the outcome of special circumstances . |
| 14 | This in turn suggests that class politics of the old sort may only have been the politics of modernism in its classic , now discredited phase . |
| 15 | Just before ten o'clock , in the stillness of the night , I heard the noise of a motor car : it could only have been the doctor 's . |
| 16 | Because of this view I have , I believe Alfieri need not necessarily have been a lawyer as almost any other outsider would have done the job just as well . |
| 17 | A symbol which is a male symbol appears in our culture to represent maleness , in a way in which earlier this may not necessarily have been the case . |
| 18 | I think its a bit of a simplification to say that its , its nature 's way of keeping us going , because actually er ro , the idea that romantic love is the start of a life long relationship that produces off spring is really quite recent , erm for , for most of history er marriage 's were on the basis of continuing er lines , continuing property and people had to erm some how or other cope with living with ano another person that might not necessarily have been the person that they would of chosen from love and , and this is still true in many societies and situations now . |
| 19 | The owner of the estate in the fourth century would thus have been a Firminus , since it is reasonably certain that this building stone belonged to the house built c . |
| 20 | There would thus have been no grounds for a statutory demand under s 268(1) ( a ) Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 21 | In the majority of cases however , the valuation engagement will be value added , where the firm uses information , which may already have been the subject of validation , enquiry and analytical procedures or information gathering work , to derive a conclusion in the form of an estimated value or range of values for a particular purpose . |
| 22 | ‘ It ca n't just have been a whim . ’ |
| 23 | Indeed , you had , you had thought about it and so it would just have been a case of saying , yes , this is obvious . |
| 24 | But her appointment should not just have been a token . |
| 25 | ‘ But ‘ little ’ could just have been a term of endearment . |
| 26 | Was it meant to be a chuckling advertisement for his own sensibility ; a tease about the gritty , unpolishable surface of the desert ; or might it just have been a joke on us ? |
| 27 | Liverpool 's tactical and technical limitations were exposed by the newly-crowned Russian champions , and while it is easy to be wise after the event , Rosenthal could just have been the man to produce that little something out of the ordinary if he had been used from the start against Spartak . |
| 28 | I am sure I would have gone to the Crusades and done my bit , although that might just have been the racist in me or my natural desire to loot . |
| 29 | He could easily have been a character in a Thomas Mann novel — the great remote maestro venturing down from The Magic Mountain to talk to a visiting writer . |
| 30 | In the photograph on the facing page I have designed an S-shape for Sheen , but it could just as easily have been a J for Joanna , or any of the other letters of the alphabet . |